Are there highly analytic (isolating) languages without tone?
Mar 15, 2022 · I know many highly analytic languages (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai) are tonal languages. Are there similarly analytic or isolating languages that don't use tone the way those …
Proto-Polynesian reconstruction and ambiguities in Hawaiian, …
Jul 31, 2019 · Proto-Polynesian reconstruction and ambiguities in Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan and Tongan Ask Question Asked 6 years, 4 months ago Modified 2 years, 4 months ago
comparative linguistics - Is there any evidence of language contact ...
May 7, 2018 · The only well regarded link between old and new world languages are the Dené–Yeniseian languages, which don't include either. But that's in terms of language family …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural …
Aug 3, 2024 · The conclusion must therefore be that different groups of speakers, such as deaf children and participants with different native languages in experiments, independently of each …
What defines a language? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
10 I'm reading around multimodal text and many of the readings I have come across (Kress, Halliday) seem to define language as spoken or written communication. That seems to …
complexity - How complex are Slavic languages? - Linguistics …
Jun 19, 2025 · However, in her paper Canonical complexity, Johanna Nichols surveys a sample of 113 languages across different macroareas and language families and finds that, with the …
Why does English have both Latin and Greek origins
Jun 14, 2013 · But the origins of a language need not be the origins of each and every word. English has borrowed words from very many languages but from French it has borrowed en …
linguistic typology - Are there any languages with minimal …
I don't know of a particular language where the distinction between verbs and nouns is difficult, but as for adjectives, in general one could attest that they are either more noun-like or more …
phonology - Can languages restrict their number of distinct …
Aug 8, 2020 · For example, Maori is written using the Latin alphabet because of the British conquest of New Zealand, not because it is suitable for the language. That alphabet in turn …
Any languages that don't have consecutive letters?
Jun 23, 2018 · Languages that don't have coda consonants might still have heterosyllabic sequences of the same vowel. I don't know Maori, but it seems to have words written with "aa" …